POLICE: 'OFFICER' REALLY IMPOSTOR

A Boynton Beach man who proclaimed himself to be the law in this town learned otherwise when he was arrested on Friday, police said.

Jonathan Scott Bornstein, 29, was charged with impersonating a police officer, a third-degree felony. He was released from Palm Beach County Jail on Friday after posting $3,000 bail.

William Lynn of Boynton Beach told police that while driving down Federal Highway one morning last week, he noticed he was being followed by a white car with tinted windows and a spotlight by the driver's window.

When he changed lanes, the white car changed lanes. When he turned left onto Northeast Third Street, the white car turned left.

Lynn thought the driver of the white car was a police officer, so he stopped at a stop sign and stayed there as the driver of the white car pulled into a nearby parking lot, police said.

The two men then argued. Bornstein identified himself as a police officer and three times demanded to see Lynn's driver's license, police said. Lynn also said Bornstein refused to show him a badge or identification.

Bornstein, police said, threatened Lynn, saying, "I'm the law in this town and I'm going to get you."

Bornstein was arrested on Friday after Lynn picked him out of a photographic line-up.

Neither Bornstein nor Lynn could be reached for a comment on Friday night.